Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Memento, and The Birds. These are just three examples of upcoming reboots that intend to make a quick buck at the box office.
Nothing causes more drama among the movie community than the announcement of a reboot or remake. I don't find remakes particularly exciting, especially if the reboot is of a franchise that doesn't warrant it. But sometimes it's difficult to ignore a remake, especially if it concerns an old movie that I particularly like.
One of my favourite films is RoboCop, so as you can imagine, I was furious when I learnt of the proposed reboot. I knew it would be awful, and any hope I had for it being decent quickly faded once I had cast my eye upon the rubber robo-suit for the first time.
As release date finally arrived, I made myself go and
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It didn't flop at the box office, but it was nowhere near as good. Yes, the special effects were better in the remake, but I'd rather "Get my ass to Mars" with Arnie in the 1990 version than sit through a pointless remake that tries to ride the coattails of the superior first film.
Total Recall
Arnie didn't enjoy sitting through Total Recall 2012
Both RoboCop and Total Recall were remade around 20 years after their original releases. More recently, the Spider-Man series was rebooted in 2012. I still don't understand the decision to reboot it, and what's more, The Amazing Spider-Man was no better than the 2002 original.
I understand changing the cast, I wasn't a really a fan of Tobey Maguire; but I assumed it would have been acceptable to make a fourth in the series, instead of retelling the story only five years after the initial release of Sami Raimi's trilogy in 2007.
Other disappointing reboots and remakes include The Italian Job, Clash of the Titans, Godzilla, The Invasion, Rollerball, Psycho, Terminator Genisys... The list goes
It did, however, gross $115 million in worldwide earnings. Therefore, the economics of a second remake are seen to be profitable. The second remake will have to earn a pretty good profit in order to meet the standards set by the
REVIEW: I remember back to 2014 when San Diego Comic Con announced the new reimagining of King Kong. Before the Deadpool test footage leaked that summer, that was the ultimate film I was excited for. A NEW KING KONG MOVIE THAT TAKES PLACE ON THE ISLAND FINALLY? I’m exhausted of seeing Kong doing the same shit film after film. You see one King Kong film you see them all. I wasn’t even
There 're many movies coming out soon of the superhero genre. In 2016, going to be about seven movies of superheroes in 2016. Which Including in order Deadpool February 12th (fox), Batman vs Superman dawn of justice March 25th, Captain America: Civil War May 6th, we got X-Men apocalypse (fox) May 27th, August 5th Suicide Squad, October seven Gambit (fox), and finally, but not least November 4th Dr. Strange. A kiloton of movies coming out in the following years, but well it hurt the popularity of superhero genre there or not. I think, it will hurt them eventually if they do more movies because they are so many movies previously out there it could happen in many ways they might not make much money where they are spending a specific sum of cash that might not make a possible profit which become a great bust like Fantastic Four (2015). The studio is previously spending six to seven figures hoping all these movies are a great hit. Another overhaul that the studio 's needs to investigate into superhero movies doing a more accurate story to the book, or something. The accurate story I mean by is you write an excellent script with pleasant characters with a good plot but with excellent character development, including excellent choices on the actors choose, because it 's tough to sell the following movie after that. An
Some movies are too good to stop at one measly movie. Sequels have been around for decades and will not stop anytime soon. Many movies are so profitable and successful, it makes sense to provide a sequel to the fan base. Sequels usually come after movies that are raved by many. Sequels are usually better than the original film as demonstrated by Sam Raimi’s Spider-man trilogy.
Largely, we have a fifth film because the fourth film, 2011's On Stranger Tides, may have grossed $180 million less in North America than the biggest success in the series thus far, 2006's Dead Man's Chest, but cleared more than $1 billion worldwide. Disney has financed the film for more than $230 million, so clearly they want all the money.
The trend of sequels began and studios were eager to make large profits off high grossing box office hits. A franchise of over twenty films in forty years, James Bond helped every man with an adventurous side fantasize about the life of a spy. These action packed movies all shared the similar plot of Bond fighting against enemies, primarily Russians. These films also revived the political era because each of his enemies was the same as Americans during the Cold War. Hits such as Jurassic Park, Star Wars, and The Godfather gained cult followings which demanded the stories be continued. The Godfather, a classic, was deemed great enough to add on to, but it like many other sequels received considerably less praise after the second. Yet the big named studios still made them simply to receive the greatest possible profit out of these franchises.
Despite a rushed post-production schedule, Universal was so impressed with Jackson 's rough cut on The Frighteners, the studio moved the theatrical release date closer by four months. The film was not a box office success, but received generally positive reviews from critics. Despite its lackluster performance at the box office, the film has gained a cult following in more recent years.
The superhero film genre has been around a long time with several reboots of staple characters such as Batman, Spiderman, and Superman over the years. However, they had limited box office success and their appeal did not appear to translate readily to the mass market. However, through the success of both Marvel Studios and its rivals, this trend appears to be changing. In fact, Chris Nolan’s Batman trilogy had a combined worldwide box office of $2.46 Billion and “The Avengers” $1.51 Billion. (Marvel is Defining 2013) The two new Spider Man movies, The Amazing Spider Man and Amazing Spider Man 2 had a combined worldwide box office of $1.47 Billion. (Source: http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/Spider-Man )
Pitch Perfect 2 received a 66% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is a full 14% decrease from the previous movie. The movie was poorly written in comparison to the original and was rushed. The quality decrease from the original to the sequel shows the need for limitation. People spent their hard earned money to go see this film with the impression that they’d enjoy it since they enjoyed the first one and were severely let down. Universal should have recognized the downgrade in value and never produced this movie, however they knew people would see the movie after the successfulness of the first movie. With Pitch Perfect 3 coming out soon, one has to wonder if this sequel will follow in the footsteps of the second movie or if they’ll step up their game in hopes of turning around the franchise. Too often sequels are made because studios know they can make money on them with limited effort if the previous movie did well. This needs to be changed; sequels should be produced if they’re well written, not rushed or used as a way to make a quick buck. If a studio can not do this than they must not produce the sequel.
What movies we did get this year were some fantastic original films. Baby Driver, Dunkirk, The Big Sick, and Wind River. All of these films made a lot of money each, and they all got phenomenal reviews. Why? Because people didn’t know what to expect. You can go into a Marvel film and be wowed by the visuals, but you know they’re all paint by numbers with different paint brushes.
It’s been almost ten years since the first Transformers film was released, back on July 3ed of 2007. Now in 2017 we have the fifth film in this dreadful series coming to theaters. I believe that Transformers: The Last Knight had a chance at being a watchable film. It seemed like it was going to be more story driven with all of the Transformers artifacts being left in history and really digging deep into the lore of the Transformers. And I have to admit when I first started watching this film I was very excited and optimistic. It opened very strong and had me very intrigued as to what was going to develop out of this story. But what I realized about fifteen minutes after the film started was that nothing changed. It's just as senseless as any of the other Transformers films. Mark Wahlberg (playing Cade Yeager) just couldn't connect with the audience emotionally, and just stuck to portraying a very basic “bad-a**” action hero. I don’t even want to mention how pointless Vivian Wembley
Movies have evolved over the years. Today’s movies had numerous differences than the movies in the past. Movies were made over 100 years ago, that was a extraordinary long time ago. Some people have positive feelings about how movies had changed over the years, but many people had negative feelings about the changes. Some people rather had the old movies instead of the new made ones.
It’s been 8 years since the last time we saw the Fantastic Four, and in that span, the 20th Century Fox brain trust obviously hasn’t learned one single iota about how to handle this franchise. In fact, their true intent was the completely bury the franchise, then they’ve successfully accomplished their mission – because Fantastic Four is easily the worst superhero movie in this modern age of superhero cinema (and here I didn’t think it could get any worse than Teenage Mutant Ninja
Sequels and remakes are currently the name of the game for blockbuster movies. In 2017, seven of the top ten earning films are either remakes or sequels, so clearly there is a good reason behind this trend. After all, entertainment companies are not being paid for who is the most creative. Clearly it is a great business decision to stick with what is not only the safest choice, but the one that will consistently bring in the most revenue for the producer. The reason for the success of remakes and sequels is that all that the film producers have to do is satisfy expectations for the film meaning if it is a title like Star Wars, practically everyone already knows about the film and so now all that needs